ix, 230 pages : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (page 226) and index

1. The patent -- 2. The poor schoolmaster -- 3. Yellow Breeches Creek -- 4. Under pressure -- 5. Inventors galore! -- 6. A great undertaking -- 7. Long distance -- 8. A man from Oberlin -- 9. Western Union -- 10. The military telephone -- 11. Down on the farm -- 12. Collecting telephones -- 13. Hackers and phreaks -- 14. Over the waves -- 15. The singing wires -- 16. How they worked -- 17. The new kids on the block -- 18. Conclusion -- Appendixes: -- 1. Cities with independent telephone companies -- 2. Cities that once had independent telephone companies -- 3. Associations and publications related to telephony -- 4. Insulator manufacturers in the United States -- 5. Telephone manufacturers -- 6. Some communications museums in the United States -- 7. Affidavits of Zenas Fisk Wilber -- 8. Affidavits of Alexander Graham Bell in reply to that of Zenas Fisk Wilber -- 9. The untold story of the telephone -- 10. Alexander Graham Bell's original patent application, 1876 -- 11. Alexander Graham Bell's patent application, 1877

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